Three ways blockchain will transform the healthcare industry - Decrypt

Healthcare is seen as one of the industries ripe for disruption by blockchain technology—but the industry needs to embrace a new culture of experimentation to realize its potential, said speakers at the Fintech Connect conference in London. The second area where blockchain could have an impact is on the pharmaceutical supply chain, said Lara Verdian, head of healthcare & COO at blockchain operating system Quant Network.

“If you look at what health care is, on a theoretical level it's about interconnecting systems that have extremely complex behaviors,” said Dr. Robert M. Learney, lead technologist for blockchain at UK technology innovation center Digital Catapult. Blockchain could be used for “everything from track and trace shipments to restoring primacy of ownership of data back to the patients themselves,” said Learney.

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